I found the reason on Wikipedia
“The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder.”
It’s the bird the US leadership most identifies with.
Dee is my national bird.
I think it’s the eyes…
What say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
i would, but my asshole is in a jar 50 miles away. are you willing to wait?
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they finally changing it from the turkey?
Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.
Bet there gong to spend millions to brag about a partisan feel good bill that will distract us from tasty CEO blood.
Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.
TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.
It is not unique about either of those.
Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.
TikTok
Is Run
By Dictatorship Military
It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.
Agreed.
They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.
All I can say is… I’m glad it’s not the next president who signs it into law.
Actually no I really kinda wish it was so I can get more of him trying desperately to act like he isn’t terrified of the eagle brought in for a photo shoot. That shit was priceless
Yea he would switch it to the Chicken Mcnugget
yass queen
Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.
Snow woman
She’s still better than what we got with Biden.
She’s younger, a woman, and probably would have pushed for protecting abortion and maternity leave.
That specific example means jack shit with the even split senate and stacked SCOTUS, though.
Not to mention a whole bunch of other progressive positions that Biden doesn’t share.
You got downvoted, I got upvoted, despite us both saying the same idea. Lemmy just hates when someone lightly calls out Biden.
Biden could protest this nothing bill by refusing to sign it or veto it.
Worst case, he leaves a bit of extra paperwork for Trump.Edit: some context
President has 10 days to sign or veto. If 10 days pass, the bill will become a law if Congress is in session. The bill will die if it is in recess.
Gonna be a lot more of this crap real soon
They’re dead serious and doing what they were paid to do.
They weren’t paid to protect you, they weren’t paid to make your life easier, they weren’t paid to represent you at all.
It would have been cooler if congress lowered the age to qualify for Medicare by one day.
The real national bird is the boneless chicken.
Tyson sends their regards
*May contain bones
* May contain less than 50% chicken
May contain chicken.
OOPS! ALL BONES!™
Also, the buffalo
Represented with great honor in this new legislation is the humble American crow – the true reflection of our nation’s soul. For what is the bald eagle but a symbol of outdated pomp and a government that’s too busy patting itself on the back? The bald eagle, after all, has been perched atop its perch since 1782 – a symbol of a country that’s more concerned with conserving its own status than doing anything to actually improve itself.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here living its best life. It’s always scheming, always scrounging for scraps in the garbage of society. It’s a bird of the people – and by people, I mean those of us who are still trying to make ends meet while the fat cats at the top continue to feast on the nation’s wealth.
It’s also a symbol of our nation’s laziness. The bald eagle may be proud of its slow, majestic flight, but we’re more proud of being able to do absolutely nothing for hours on end without any consequences. We’re a country that can’t even be bothered to show up to its own problems – and the American crow is the perfect representation of that.
Furthermore, have you seen the state of our national parks? A bunch of underfunded, neglected monstrosities that are more like a symbol of our own institutionalized apathy than anything we’d want to attract. It’s like the bald eagle is just trying to pretend we’re better than we are.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here building its own infrastructure – a nest made of whatever it can scrounge up, with twigs and trash and other people’s detritus. That’s the American way – we don’t need no fancy-schmancy ‘bald eagle’ perched on some government-mandated pedestal; we’ve got our American crow, proudly wallowing in its own mediocrity.
So let’s be real, folks – the next time you see an American crow, that’s what we’re really looking at. That’s what we are as a country: lazy, corrupt, and proud of it.
Wasn’t the bald eagle already the US’s national bird?
If only someone had bothered to research this and write it up in a clear, easy to read fashion. Oh, there’s a link along with this post!
If you’re thinking to yourself, “Gosh, I thought the bald eagle was already the United States national bird,” welcome to the club.
Was it not already?
turkey
Chicken nuggets
It’s what Franklin wanted. And Franklin had humor and consistent set of morals. And got France to back us up by having sex with so many French women.
I think the Turkey would be better than a bird we have to ADR in the screech of another animal.
Turkeys: invasive, will absolutely move in and fuck up your shit
Bald Eagle: almost went extinct because it ran out of a particular type of tree.
Turkeys: will eat literally anything under the sun. Grass. Seeds. Other, smaller inferior turkeys. Car bumpers.
Bald eagles: almost went extinct because salmon was in short supply.
Turkeys: big, fat, aggressive birds with absolutely no fucks to give. The Always Sunny crew if they were all birds and not just D.
Bald Eagles: sleek, reclusive, and quiet. Literally sounds like a mouse.
It’s turkeys, it was always turkeys. It’s not even close.
It was hunting (considered pests) and DDT (pesticide that made the eggshells break too easily) that made eagles almost go extinct.
Shhhhhhhhhhh. Their inability to make up bullshit on the Internet also nearly caused their extinction.
Unlike turkeys which as we all know are the driving force behind generative AI platforms. Obviously
Never had a national bird, according to this article. Thank God our infinitely wise and useful government got on that before they lost all their power to actually do anything meaningful or helpful. 🦅🇺🇸
Not technically no, we all apparently thought it was. Now it is official.
Not official yet. Got to wait for the system to do it’s thing and get the ol Joe handonhiscock on there to make it official.
Watch him veto it.
aaaaa fuck he should.
A message I can get behind “stop fucking around.”
Have you heard what they sound like? It isn’t what’s usually depicted in videos.
Many times it’s a hawk, similar to how most coyotes in film and TV make wolf howls. Which is crazy because coyotes chattering is much scarier.
Colbert Report wouldn’t have lied to us!
They sound like freedom! 🇺🇸🎇🧨🐦🔥
